Archaeologists from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and elsewhere have found traces of indigotin -- a blue secondary ...

New research introduces a paleoenvironmental model in which tidal dynamics influenced the earliest development of agriculture ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Homo sapiens undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of km of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study suggests that ...

Archaeologists have performed the first systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the composition, technology, and contents of 51 ‘Phoenician oil bottles’ from the island of Motya, off the west coast ...

In a new study, a team of astronomers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be most detectable by an alien observer outside ...

While banning ozone-destroying gases such as CFCs has helped the ozone layer to recover, when combined with increased air pollution the impact of ozone could warm our planet 40% more than originally ...

Named UPM J1040-3551 AabBab, the newly-discovered quadruple star system consists of a pair of cold brown dwarfs and a pair of young red dwarfs. UPM J1040-3551 AabBab is located approximately 82 ...